Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
Appleton Chapel was completely filled last evening by an audience who came to hear the eulogy on Professor Gray, delivered by Dr. Alexander McKenzie. The speaker touched briefly on the principal points of the life of the deceased. He spoke of his early fondness for the study of natural history, of his yearning for books and travel, and of his love for integrity and truth. He dwelt with particular emphasis on his career during the forty-five years of his connection with the University. He said that even from the beginning of this period he was recognized...
There was an unusually large number of students and visitors present at vespers last evening. After Dr. F. G. Peabody made the introductory prayer, the cxxxviii. Psalm was read by the congregation. Dr. Phillips Brooks spoke very feelingly of the incident of Christ in the wilderness. He said it was at this time that the Saviour of men first recognized in himself that inherent power of resisting evil which He observed other men did not possess. The speaker cautioned his hearers to beware of turning the powers they did possess to base ends, but to devote them to the development...
...assembled to hear one of the most remarkable addresses that has been heard for a long while at Harvard. Professor Norton said that the United States presents a spectacle never before seen in the history of the world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown and honor have become weaker motives than they formerly were, and men's energies have been bent...
...Hale spoke in Divinity Hall to a small party of students, Friday evening, on the subject "Ten times one is ten clubs...